I still remember the first time I hit record on an LG V20 at a small venue show and realized the phone was picking up the full band — drums, distorted guitars, yelling crowd — without turning into a clipping, crunchy mess. It sounded like a handheld recorder, not a random slab of glass and […]
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Galaxy S4 vs. Its Rivals: The Flagship That Refused to Fade
The iPhone 5, HTC One and Xperia Z went all-in on metal and glass; Samsung doubled down on plastic and sensors. The Galaxy S4 was Samsung’s bet that brains would beat looks. Back when 1080p panels and quad-core chips were still headline material, the S4 had to outrun not just its rivals, but its own […]
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10: Big Screen, Big Ambition, Old Android
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10: Big Screen, Big Ambition, Old Android 30,000 Android apps, but your “flagship” can’t run half the new ones Around 30,000 apps were already sitting in the Android Market when the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 showed up—and this supposed high-end flagship shipped with Android 1.6, unable to run a chunk of the […]